When Rock Stars Said Goodbye

The concept of saying a farewell tour has lengthy been a slippery slope.

Ozzy Osbourne, the Who, Elton John, Kiss, Phil Collins and Motley Crue are among the many many who’ve made concrete plans to retire from the highway. Others, together with Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and Eagles singer and drummer Don Henley have hinted at different points that their bands might be approaching an finish date however averted absolutely committing to highway retirement.

Not all goodbyes are premeditated, although. In some situations, bands didn’t understand they’d launched into a farewell tour till after the ultimate bow. Such was the case for Rush and their 2015 R40 tour. “It’s clear we’re at a degree in our profession that now we have to decelerate and decelerate dramatically,” frontman Geddy Lee stated in a VH1 interview on the time. Despite the fact that guitarist Alex Lifeson thought the band might have performed extra, he got here to understand the best way issues wrapped up. “There have been plenty of causes – and really legitimate causes for ending the tour in 2015 after we did,” he informed UCR in 2021. “I’m glad we did as a result of we ended off on a very excessive word. We had been taking part in nice.”

As traditional rock followers have discovered time and time once more, farewell excursions are hardly ever an precise goodbye. A 2014 “Cessation of Touring Agreement” wasn’t sufficient to cease Motley Crue from announcing a reunion in 2019. The primary Who farewell tour in 1982 was at the least 40 years too early: The British rock legends continue to play reveals. Kiss said goodbye in 2000, but it surely wasn’t till 2018 that they felt like that they had lastly reached the “End of the Road.” Once they play their final show on this present tour, will it really be the top?

These artists and extra are rounded up within the beneath record of 45 Farewell Excursions: When Rock Stars Mentioned Goodbye.